Csi: Crime Scene Investigation star Paul Guilfoyle is set to leave the crime drama after 14 years. The actor, who plays Captain Jim Brass, joined the show as a main castmember when it debuted in 2000.
He has since appeared in all 14 seasons, making him one of the last two remaining original stars alongside George Eads.
A statement from producers Carol Mendelsohn and Don McGill reads, "Paul made Capt. Brass a standout character. He is not just an original cast member, he is an original.
"In a show about forensics, fans always looked forward to the handcuffs coming out, and Capt. Brass putting his spin on the crime of the week, just as Paul Guilfoyle put his indelible stamp on the character and the show. He will be missed."
Guilfoyle will bow out in the season 14 finale, which will air in the U.S. in May (14).

More Dead Bodies: CSI lives on! Though the show features many unfortunate victims, it has consistently killed (ha!) in the ratings, and so a Season 14 is set in stone. Ted Danson will return, as well as Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox, Eric Szmanda, Paul Guilfoyle and Robert David Hall, along with Wallace Langham, Elisabeth Harnois, David Berman and John Wellner. [EW]
ABC Sets Finale Dates: It's that time! ABC announced via release today the finales of its primetime offerings — March 27 we'll say goodbye to The Neighbors, April 17 Suburgatory, May 2 Wife Swap, May 5 Red Widow, May 7 Splash, May 12 Once Upon a Time and Revenge, May 13 Castle, May 16 Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, May 17 Shark Tank, May 19 America's Funniest Home Videos, May 21 Dancing With the Stars, May 22 The Middle, Modern Family, and Nashville, and May 28 Body of Proof.
It's Showtime for James Woods: James Woods has joined Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight in the new Showtime drama Ray Donovan, the network announced. The series will focus on Schreiber, a "fixer" who runs into trouble when his father (Voight) is released from prison. Woods will play a family friend.
Hot in Herre: Betty White can't retire yet, now that TV Land has picked up a fifth season of her sitcom, Hot in Cleveland. The new season will start filming in the fall, and will bring the comedy past the ever-important 100-episode milestone.
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David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas consists of six stories set in various periods between 1850 and a time far into Earth's post-apocalyptic future. Each segment lives on its own the previous first person account picked up and read by a character in its successor creating connective tissue between each moment in time. The various stories remain intact for Tom Tykwer's (Run Lola Run) Lana Wachowski's and Andy Wachowski's (The Matrix) film adaptation which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. The massive change comes from the interweaving of the book's parts into one three-hour saga — a move that elevates the material and transforms Cloud Atlas in to a work of epic proportions.
Don't be turned off by the runtime — Cloud Atlas moves at lightning pace as it cuts back and forth between its various threads: an American notary sailing the Pacific; a budding musician tasked with transcribing the hummings of an accomplished 1930's composer; a '70s-era investigatory journalist who uncovers a nefarious plot tied to the local nuclear power plant; a book publisher in 2012 who goes on the run from gangsters only to be incarcerated in a nursing home; Sonmi~451 a clone in Neo Seoul who takes on the oppressive government that enslaves her; and a primitive human from the future who teams with one of the few remaining technologically-advanced Earthlings in order to survive. Dense but so was the unfamiliar world of The Matrix. Cloud Atlas has more moving parts than the Wachowskis' seminal sci-fi flick but with additional ambition to boot. Every second is a sight to behold.
The members of the directing trio are known for their visual prowess but Cloud Atlas is a movie about juxtaposition. The art of editing is normally a seamless one — unless someone is really into the craft the cutting of a film is rarely a post-viewing talking point — but Cloud Atlas turns the editor into one of the cast members an obvious player who ties the film together with brilliant cross-cutting and overlapping dialogue. Timothy Cavendish the elderly publisher could be musing on his need to escape and the film will wander to the events of Sonmi~451 or the tortured music apprentice Robert Frobisher also feeling the impulse to run. The details of each world seep into one another but the real joy comes from watching each carefully selected scene fall into place. You never feel lost in Cloud Atlas even when Tykwer and the Wachowskis have infused three action sequences — a gritty car chase in the '70s a kinetic chase through Neo Seoul and a foot race through the forests of future millennia — into one extended set piece. This is a unified film with distinct parts echoing the themes of human interconnectivity.
The biggest treat is watching Cloud Atlas' ensemble tackle the diverse array of characters sprinkled into the stories. No film in recent memory has afforded a cast this type of opportunity yet another form of juxtaposition that wows. Within a few seconds Tom Hanks will go from near-neanderthal to British gangster to wily 19th century doctor. Halle Berry Hugh Grant Jim Sturgess Jim Broadbent Ben Whishaw Hugo Weaving and Susan Sarandon play the same game taking on roles of different sexes races and the like. (Weaving as an evil nurse returning to his Priscilla Queen of the Desert cross-dressing roots is mind-blowing.) The cast's dedication to inhabiting their roles on every level helps us quickly understand the worlds. We know it's Halle Berry behind the fair skinned wife of the lunatic composer but she's never playing Halle Berry. Even when the actors are playing variations on themselves they're glowing with the film's overall epic feel. Jim Broadbent's wickedly funny modern segment a Tykwer creation that packs a particularly German sense of humor is on a smaller scale than the rest of the film but the actor never dials it down. Every story character and scene in Cloud Atlas commits to a style. That diversity keeps the swirling maelstrom of a movie in check.
Cloud Atlas poses big questions without losing track of its human element the characters at the heart of each story. A slower moment or two may have helped the Wachowskis' and Tykwer's film to hit a powerful emotional chord but the finished product still proves mainstream movies can ask questions while laying over explosive action scenes. This year there won't be a bigger movie in terms of scope in terms of ideas and in terms of heart than Cloud Atlas.
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CBS defends firing CSI stars
CBS chief Leslie Moonves defended the network's firing of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation stars Jorja Fox and George Eads, describing the decision as a move to help the TV industry draw the fiscal line. The two stars were canned last week after they failed to report for work on the upcoming season (while star Marg Helgenberger reported to work as scheduled). Deals with Fox and Eads, who had been on the show since its debut four years ago, had two more seasons to go on their existing contracts. The actors reportedly wanted a raise in their $100,000-per-episode pay. Moonves told the Television Critics Association on Sunday discussions had been under way with their lawyers and there were certain "veiled threats about their not showing up." He said their contracts were renegotiated after two years and a raise was offered for this fifth season, even though there was no contractual obligation to do so. "There comes a point where we feel a contract is a contract," Moonves said. Moonves added Fox and Eads have not been recast but hinted it was possible cast members Eric Szmanda and Paul Guilfoyle might play bigger roles, The Associated Press reports. When asked to comment, Carmine Giovinazzo, who stars in the CSI spinoff CSI NY, said: "I'd be shining Moonves' shoes and caddying for him every weekend if I was making that much money."
Sci Fi's Shyamalan documentary a hoax
The Sci Fi Channel admitted that it perpetuated a fictitious feud with filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan in order to promote its three-hour mockumentary The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan. It all started in December, when Sci Fi announced The Sixth Sense director had agreed to participate in a documentary about his life to coincide with the release of The Village on July 30. Last month, network reps said Shyamalan walked off the documentary when the questions got too personal and said they would never work with the director again. Sci Fi prexy Bonnie Hammer told the AP Friday she was in on the hoax from the start and takes responsibility for deceiving the public. "Perhaps we might have taken the guerilla campaign one step too far," she said. "We thought it would create controversy."
Superman finally finds a director
X-Men director Bryan Singer has signed on to helm Warner Bros.' next Superman movie, Reuters reports. Although there is no scheduled start date for the project, Singer's commitment throws his next two projects, WB's Logan's Run and Fox's X-Men 3, into limbo. Superman's script will likely be the project's most time-consuming element, which will inevitably determine any production start. He was scheduled to direct the third X-Men installment for a May 5, 2006 release. Singer replaces Charlie's Angels director McG, who dropped out last week ago over budget and location issues. Directors Tim Burton and Brett Ratner were also at one point attached to the project.
M-I:3 looking for new director
Paramount Pictures, meanwhile, has hit a snag with its 2005 summer tentpole, Mission: Impossible 3. Reuters reports helmer Joe Carnahan has dropped out of the director's seat because of "creative differences." But Rob Friedman, vice chairman of the Paramount Pictures Motion Picture Group, said shooting on the blockbuster Tom Cruise franchise will begin as planned next month in Berlin. The news comes shortly after Paramount announced it was shifting the film's release date by seven weeks, moving it from its May slot to June 29, 2005. In M-I:3, Cruise reprises his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt, with Scarlett Johansson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kenneth Branagh and Ving Rhames rounding out the cast. Brian De Palma directed the 1996 original, while John Woo helmed the 2000 sequel.
Ulrich and Mustain feud heats up--again
Former Metallica guitarist Dave Mustaine, who was fired from the band in the early '80s and went on to form Megadeth, isn't happy with the documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Mustain told Record Collector magazine last week he considered the inclusion of a scene in which he and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich hash out their differences a "final betrayal" because he had asked that the band cut it from the film. Ulrich told Launch.com the group considered Mustain's request to cut the scene but decided it was too important to leave out. Ulrich also said he was shocked by Mustaine's on-camera outburst: "I was stunned by the fact that when he looked back on his 15 years of being in a very successful hard rock band called Megadeth, that the main thing that he saw in that rear-view mirror was Metallica."
CBS to fight Super Bowl fines
CBS prexy Leslie Moonves was busy Sunday defending CBS' firing of two CSI stars, but he also took time to tell the Television Critics Association that the network would fight any fines leveled against its television stations over Janet Jackson's startling Super Bowl performance. CBS could face a Federal Communications Commission fine of $550,000 or a maximum penalty of $27,500 for each of 20 CBS-owned stations, the AP reports. "We think the idea of a fine for that is patently ridiculous and we're not going to stand for it," Moonves said. "We're going to take that to the courts if it happens. ... It's perilously dangerous." Moonves said that while the network regretted the Jackson incident and has added a five-second precautionary delay for live events, such an approach is not feasible for news or sports, the AP reports.
Data visits Enterprise
Brent Spiner, best know for his role as Lt. Cmdr. Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, is set to make an appearance on UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise this fall. In a guest-starring role sure to lure die-hard Trekkies, Spiner will playing the great-great-grandfather of Dr. Noonien Soong--the creator of Data. Spiner previously played Dr. Soong in an episode of Next Generation. According to Reuters, there has been a lot of speculation about Star Trek veteran William Shatner possibly be beaming onto Enterprise, but sources indicated there are no immediate plans for a guest appearance. The show was originally scheduled for 9 p.m. Fridays in the fall, but will now air at 8 p.m., most likely to avoid going head-to-head with the Sci Fi network's veteran series, Stargate: SG1.
Fan Web sites in catfight
The fan Web site Ain't-It-Cool-News, which is known for trashing films before they are released via anonymous reviews, appears to have been the butt of a joke last week. Variety reports members of The-Scorched-Planet.com posted three fake reviews for 20th Century Fox's upcoming sci-fi thriller Alien vs. Predator without having seen the film. Ain't-It-Cool quickly posted the reviews, along with two that appear to be real. The-Scorched-Planet.com then revealed the plot in a rambling post on its Web site, along with a racist and personal attack on Ain't-It-Cool West Coast editor Drew McWeeny, who removed the reviews soon thereafter. But according to McWeeny, Ain't-It-Cool the ruse won't get the Web site to start playing by Hollywood's rules. "There's a democracy to what we do that gives a voice to the average filmgoer, even people who get excited in a theater and write for the first time," McWeeny told Variety.